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If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
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I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
- Lewis Carroll
"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things:
of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings."
- Lewis Carroll
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"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
- Lewis Carroll
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be;
and if it were so, it would be;
but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
- Lewis Carroll
Take care of the sense
and the sounds will take care of themselves.
- Lewis Carroll
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
- Lewis Carroll
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure
to dance without cessation;
and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
- Lewis Carroll
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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